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CREATIVE AUDIO+VIDEO |
OFF THE WALL, UNKNOWN, AND OBSCURE RECORDINGS:
N.B. most of these haven't been "cleaned up" or otherwise modified.
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Buchanan and Goodman Luniverse 101 1956 This is the classic 1950s "break-in" record. Can you identify all the artists? |
Zip and the Zippers Pageant PT-607B A promotional 45 discovered around 1966. One web site claims the "Zippers" were really the Orlons
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"HER BATHING SUIT NEVER GOT WET" Andrews Sisters 1945 w. Vic Shoen and his Orch. Love that Latin trumpet! |
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"YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU
CAN SUFFER" Tommy Dorsey and his Orch. with Edythe Wright, voc. 1937 |
Five Chinese Brothers From a Fast Folk LP in the 1980s. They recorded it again on their first album, but not with the same energy. |
"WHEN ROOSEVELT CAME TO TRINIDAD" ["Roosevelt in Trinidad"] The Atilla 1937 The original version of a tune recorded in the 70s by Ry Cooder, this was to celebrate FDR's appearance in the Islands |
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The Fantastic Zoo 1964 Double Shot 105 a promotional 45 |
Easy Deal Wilson Park Avenue P-128 a promotional 45 discovered in the early 60s. It's hard to know just what to make of this record, since Wilson's other recordings were not done in dialect. |
"ICH MOCHTE EIN LUSTIGER SCHIFFER SEIN" [Happy Seamen] Lester's Orch. c.1940 I grew up with this record, purchased by my father for his German father-in-law, who apparently only listened to it on one occasion. I love the violin, and the lap steel guitar which enters halfway through. |
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Paul Laval and his Woodwindy Ten RCA Victor Laval and his group were part of the "NBC's Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street," weekly radio broadcasts in the early 1940s. |
Ray Bloch's Orch. c 1940? From a time when Russian culture was somewhat in vogue, this is an English version of one of the Red Army Chorus' greatest hits
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"VARIATIONS ON A THEME CALLED HANKY PANKY" The Definitive Rock Chorale Phillips 40529 Embarrassing artifact of the late 60s. Sublime in its awfulness. A Dr. Demento reject? |
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[the Frowsy Nightclub Queen] George Formby 1935 Formby, music hall singer turned ukulele-strumming movie star, was once a household world in Britain. This from the collection of an English lady. |
The Silver King Band 1984 Rock Bottom, harp, along with Flo Mingo on washboard and St. Petey Twig on piano, made up the Tampa Bay Area's favorite goodtime band in the early 1980s. We recorded their album "Live at the Dive" in the studio with 55 of their closest friends. |
"SHE FELT TOO GOOD" Jimmie McCracklin 1953 A classic from the heyday of "jump blues" |
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